Says Jobs was thinking: 'It will take until February to release an SDK because we're trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once--provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone from users that would have the phone do things that our profit model and/or contract demands that we prohibit.'"
The AppleTV
- Can run Linux.
- costs $300.
- has digital audio and video out.
- Can play 480p, 540p, 720p videos. I think 1080i as well, but I don't have that screen.
- Running Linux allows web, email, and playing DVD's (vlc) (external drive).
If you add up all of the spying and wars that we are performing to "Fight Terrorism".
Now look at the number of "terrorist events" that have happened "successfully".
If the number of terrorist events is not declining, then one cannot conclude that the billions we throw at this (and lives lost and rights that we throw away), are "helpful".
FBI Warning: This media is protected by government backed monopoly which lasts for an undetermined amount of time. The days of copyright representing encouragement of innovation is long passed. The sole purpose of todays copyright law is to generate profits. As such, any unauthorized duplication will be interpreted as theft of possible profits. We take information duplication/theft very seriously. In fact such crimes are more serious than many violent crimes. If you are suspected of such illegal information duplication, you face fines of $250,000, and possible jail time. Suspected parties are also subject to sanctioned private company investigations backed by federal authorities.
The vast majority of people are not going to be getting random unpopular things. They download things because they heard about it or read about it where other people would too.
Multicast takes care of the big things, like everyone-watching-the-superbowl, or everyone-watching-the-season-finale, or everyone-watching-the-current-disaster-footage.
For non-simultaneous popular media, P2P could help. Then, the provider can offload service to some connected clients.
The bandwidth space for popular and unpopular media would be limited like a giant video store. When you request an unpopular item, and it's not currently available as P2P and the current maximum broadcast has been met, then you get a message that it's not available currently. Try another selection out of the million available.
If we find life on Mars, the odds are that we put it there.
Once the accidental or purposeful spread of life is possible, then the probability of life spread to neighboring space far outweighs the random formation of life there. Intelligent life existing somewhere only increases the odds of the spread of life.
We have finally won? The war against terror (extreme fear) is over. We can can now cure fear/terror.
We no longer need to fear the undefined enemy.
Of course we still need oil.
And once they stop "robbing" RIAA, sales go up?
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So once allofmp3 is shut down, do they really expect sales to go up?
If there was a similar legitimate, and DRM-free service, and prices were low enough, perhaps sales would go up.
It seems that RIAA still does not get it, things like Napster, mp3.com, and allofmp3 will keep coming until the RIAA, or the artist themselves decide to stop fighting the Internet model, and instead profit from it.
Apple says: "Being a good open source citizen, Apple shares its enhancements with the open source community",
which should read: "As required by license, Apple publishes its open source enhancements".
The only "firefox killer" would likely be a Open source Webkit/Webcore based browser that is lighter and faster than firefox. This "safire" browser could also be a likely Safari killer.
While the 1978/1998 extensions were not retroactive to re-copyright public-domain works, They were applied retroactively to cancel and extend the expiration of the original term.
The implied contract when a work was written between 1923 and 1975 was that a publishing monopoly was granted for 56 years (the last 28 years with renewal). The implied contact with the public was that after the 56 years, the work would enter the public domain. The copyright extensions of 1976/1978, 1996 and 1998 should have only applied to future works, not past works. But they did, and works that were agreed in 1923 to go into the public domain in 1979, now do not go into the public domain until 2018.
2. "you can't take something out of the public domain once it's there"
I thought the same until reading about URAA. "Metropolis"(1925-1927) was public domain starting in 1955. In 1996, it came out of the public domain.
In 1950, copyrighted works lasted for at most 56 years. So works in 1950 and before SHOULD be in the public domain. But in 1976/1998, those copyright terminations were removed, seemingly violating an implicit contract with the public.
A 95 year coyright term is no more sane than a 60 year patent term.
It is likely now that you will never see any copyright expire for any work created in your lifetime. The constitutional "limited time" has been largly ignored.
The US copyright term should be laughed out of the international arena as well, but information monopolies can be more profitable than oil, and money can purchase worldwide political support.
In 2095, Windows 2000 binaries enter the public domain. The source, was never published and died on some overwritten/corrupted backup media long before.
Would the binaries be useful at all? If not, the the copyright duration is effectively infinite.
Now compare the Public domain Windows 2000 of 2095 with ReactOS or Linux in 2095. which is more useful?
But you don't need to wait 95 years to see this result.
How many years of development do you think it takes for ReactOS to surpass Windows2000?
How many years of development does it take for Linux to Surpass an abandoned UNIX, like IRIX?
If for some reason, you wanted to create a DOS system, would you use MSDOS 6, or FreeDOS?
To assume that earth is home of the first beings in the universe is quite an odd assuption.
If you assume that other beings have intentionally or inadvertently sent objects into space then the likelyhood of spreading life surpases that of evolution from scratch.
"- invite the greedy industry to suck it up, add a few intelligent lines, and make it proprietary."
"public domain" did not create this problem. The 100 year copyright created this problem (software is obsolete in how many years ?) The 1980(?) ruling that allowed binary software to be copyrighted created this problem.
Imagine if copyright for software is 15-20 years, and to copyright binaries that do not come with source, the source must be placed in a government approved repository (which releases software when the copyright expires, or before with company approval or company end).
> What kind of computer do you have where you can't turn this off??
the devices in question are the adesso USB keyboards with builtin touchpads
"slimtouch" and similar models.
its a USB keyboard in a "notebook" form factor. good idea, but adesso sucks and apparently no one else makes them.
you cannot turn off tap clicking, as it is done in hardware (worse, it emulates a ps2 relative mouse), and the adesso hardware provided no interface to turn it off.
nothing to do with window vs apple vs linux.
apparently, from everyones response, the best feature of tap-clicking is the ability to turn it off.
is anyone going to argue that tap-clicking is a useful feature?
i vote for the "feature" of touch pads that emulates a click with every inadvertent touch. - oops (f*ck), my cusor moved to some random place mid-sentence, oops i selected and deleted a section of text. oops, i clicked on something.
addesso touchpad-keyboards suck because you cant turn this shit off.
let's just say that doing taxes online with an adessa touchpad-keyboard is a bad idea.
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I hear NPR mention a "war on terror", and I want to call in a correction/complaint.
A war on terror or fear is quite different than a war on terrorism.
And a war on terrorism is quite different than a war against terrorists.
And of course a war on terrorists is quite different that a war against a specific group.
A war against an generic term, a tactic or unspecified groups of people cannot be won.
(It cannot be lost either).
Well, if the supreme court said it...
I think the first use of the word was around 1700. (Anyone have this quote?)
This was after the 130 year monopoly was not renewed in 1692, and before the Statute of Ann in 1710.
It was used then, the same way it is used now. To market a view point. Comparing copying books with robbery at sea is more compelling than the facts.
Today, DVDs attempt to pound that in your head with those "You wouldn't steel a car...downloading is stealing" commercials.
We should expect the marketing to increase as the monopoly is threatened naturally by technology and popular thought.
Actually, Piracy is a robbery committed at sea.
Correct. It has little to do with viruses.
Says Jobs was thinking: 'It will take until February to release an SDK because we're trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once--provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone from users that would have the phone do things that our profit model and/or contract demands that we prohibit.'"
Being open and closed at the same time is hard.
The AppleTV
- Can run Linux.
- costs $300.
- has digital audio and video out.
- Can play 480p, 540p, 720p videos. I think 1080i as well, but I don't have that screen.
- Running Linux allows web, email, and playing DVD's (vlc) (external drive).
If you add up all of the spying and wars that we are performing to
"Fight Terrorism".
Now look at the number of "terrorist events" that have happened "successfully".
If the number of terrorist events is not declining, then one cannot conclude that the billions we throw at this (and lives lost and rights that we throw away), are "helpful".
FBI Warning: This media is protected by government backed monopoly which lasts for an undetermined amount of time. The days of copyright representing encouragement of innovation is long passed. The sole purpose of todays copyright law is to generate profits. As such, any unauthorized duplication will be interpreted as theft of possible profits. We take information duplication/theft very seriously. In fact such crimes are more serious than many violent crimes. If you are suspected of such illegal information duplication, you face fines of $250,000, and possible jail time. Suspected parties are also subject to sanctioned private company investigations backed by federal authorities.
Even "on-demand" often comes from popularity.
The vast majority of people are not going to be getting random unpopular things.
They download things because they heard about it or read about it where other people would too.
Multicast takes care of the big things, like everyone-watching-the-superbowl, or everyone-watching-the-season-finale, or everyone-watching-the-current-disaster-footage.
For non-simultaneous popular media, P2P could help. Then, the provider can offload service to some connected clients.
The bandwidth space for popular and unpopular media would be limited like a giant video store. When you request an unpopular item, and it's not currently available as P2P and the current maximum broadcast has been met, then you get a message that it's not available currently. Try another selection out of the million available.
If we find life on Mars, the odds are that we put it there.
Once the accidental or purposeful spread of life is possible, then the probability of life spread to neighboring space far outweighs the random formation of life there. Intelligent life existing somewhere only increases the odds of the spread of life.
So is there more DRM in this? Is it optional or mandatory.
HDMI and DVI are at least compatible with a cable.
Is DisplayPort?
We have finally won?
The war against terror (extreme fear) is over. We can can now cure fear/terror.
We no longer need to fear the undefined enemy.
Of course we still need oil.
So once allofmp3 is shut down, do they really expect sales to go up?
If there was a similar legitimate, and DRM-free service, and prices were low enough, perhaps sales would go up.
It seems that RIAA still does not get it, things like Napster, mp3.com, and allofmp3 will keep coming until the RIAA, or the artist themselves decide to stop fighting the Internet model, and instead profit from it.
The title of the article is very wrong. Can "Piracy" be replaced with "Re-use" or Recycling?
Apple says: "Being a good open source citizen, Apple shares its enhancements with the open source community",
which should read: "As required by license, Apple publishes its open source enhancements".
The only "firefox killer" would likely be a Open source Webkit/Webcore based browser that is lighter and faster than firefox. This "safire" browser could also be a likely Safari killer.
Two of your points are not correct.
1. "The extensions aren't retroactive."
While the 1978/1998 extensions were not retroactive to re-copyright public-domain works, They were applied retroactively to cancel and extend the expiration of the original term.
The implied contract when a work was written between 1923 and 1975 was that a publishing monopoly was granted for 56 years (the last 28 years with renewal). The implied contact with the public was that after the 56 years, the work would enter the public domain.
The copyright extensions of 1976/1978, 1996 and 1998 should have only applied to future works, not past works. But they did, and works that were agreed in 1923 to go into the public domain in 1979, now do not go into the public domain until 2018.
2. "you can't take something out of the public domain once it's there"
I thought the same until reading about URAA. "Metropolis"(1925-1927) was public domain starting in 1955. In 1996, it came out of the public domain.
In 1950, copyrighted works lasted for at most 56 years. So works in 1950 and before SHOULD be in the public domain. But in 1976/1998, those copyright terminations were removed, seemingly violating an implicit contract with the public.
A 95 year coyright term is no more sane than a 60 year patent term.
It is likely now that you will never see any copyright expire for any work created in your lifetime. The constitutional "limited time" has been largly ignored.
The US copyright term should be laughed out of the international arena as well, but information monopolies can be more profitable than oil, and money can purchase worldwide political support.
Did they port UML to Windows? Are they using coLinux.
Why start at the kernel level? Why not start at the application level,
like line.sf.net did?
In 2095, Windows 2000 binaries enter the public domain. The source, was never published and died on some overwritten/corrupted backup media long before.
Would the binaries be useful at all?
If not, the the copyright duration is effectively infinite.
Now compare the Public domain Windows 2000 of 2095 with ReactOS or Linux in 2095. which is more useful?
But you don't need to wait 95 years to see this result.
How many years of development do you think it takes for ReactOS to surpass Windows2000?
How many years of development does it take for Linux to Surpass an abandoned UNIX, like IRIX?
If for some reason, you wanted to create a DOS system, would you use MSDOS 6, or FreeDOS?
The point of DRM is to restrict the user.
Renaming it to signify the opposite is only marketing.
Enablement?
To assume that earth is home of the first beings in the universe is quite an odd assuption.
If you assume that other beings have intentionally or inadvertently sent objects into space then the likelyhood of spreading life surpases that of evolution from scratch.
the nueros has no digital video out AFAIK, so its worth is limited.
My grammar sucks probably 'cause I have open WAP.
"- invite the greedy industry to suck it up, add a few intelligent lines, and make it proprietary."
"public domain" did not create this problem.
The 100 year copyright created this problem (software is obsolete in how many years ?)
The 1980(?) ruling that allowed binary software to be copyrighted created this problem.
Imagine if copyright for software is 15-20 years, and to copyright binaries that do not come with source, the source must be placed in a government approved repository (which releases software when the copyright expires, or before with company approval or company end).
As for being sued, a simple disclaimer works.
> What kind of computer do you have where you can't turn this off??
the devices in question are the adesso USB keyboards with builtin touchpads
"slimtouch" and similar models.
its a USB keyboard in a "notebook" form factor. good idea, but adesso sucks and apparently no one else makes them.
you cannot turn off tap clicking, as it is done in hardware (worse, it emulates a ps2 relative mouse), and the adesso hardware provided no interface to turn it off.
nothing to do with window vs apple vs linux.
apparently, from everyones response, the best feature of tap-clicking is the ability to turn it off.
is anyone going to argue that tap-clicking is a useful feature?
i vote for the "feature" of touch pads that emulates a click with every inadvertent touch.
-
oops (f*ck), my cusor moved to some random place mid-sentence,
oops i selected and deleted a section of text.
oops, i clicked on something.
addesso touchpad-keyboards suck because you cant turn this shit off.
let's just say that doing taxes online with an adessa touchpad-keyboard is a bad idea.